Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 102: Re-examination (4) Survival and Development
Soon after, Yeyang made fishing nets again, made from the common vines around the cave, which were not tough, easily damaged, and often needed to be repaired, but at least they could be used, easy to make, and easy to find.
The reason why it is called a fishing net is because the net is not strong, limited by the material, can only be used for fishing, not hunting, and the net made of vines cannot trap large prey, and the strength of the fish is definitely not as good as that of the beast.
When he saw Yeyang using a fishing net to catch more than 20 catties of fat fish from the stream next to the tribe, the tribesmen fell into a frenzy of cheers, and the leader held the fishing net high and took the lead in chanting his name.
"Fire!net!"
"Fire!net!"
At night, in the cave where the flames jumped, Yeyang ate crisp fruits, bites on hot barbecue, and eats too much tasteless barbecue, always feeling a little boring, and it is time to find some seasonings.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the leader walking towards him with a small stone jar covered with animal skin, and the people of the tribe stared at the stone jar in his hand, all showing covetousness and greed.
The leader walked up to him and handed the stone jar to Yeyang, the stone jar looked only the size of a fist, the inside was hollowed, the capacity was even smaller, only the hollow of two thumbs, the animal skin had not been treated, and it had been shriveled for a long time.
Yeyang was a little displeased at first glance, but when he noticed the leader's reluctant gaze, he couldn't help but be curious and opened the animal skin, and suddenly fell into a huge surprise, inside was a pale yellow rough crystal, only a small half jar.
He hurriedly twisted a few and put them in his mouth, the familiar salty taste made him cry, yes, what is in the jar is table salt! With salt, when he barbecues and eats animal meat in the future, he finally gets rid of the dull and tasteless situation.
In addition to salt as a seasoning, it is more important to adjust the physical state, as an ordinary person, the absorption of salt is essential, and eating food with salt for a long time can enhance physical strength and endurance.
The tribe has the habit of drinking animal blood, and the normal salt is also drawn from it, but the trace amount of salt in the animal blood obviously cannot provide sufficient needs, and the tribesmen have great strength, but the sustainability is not good.
Even those powerful warriors, if they exercise for too long, they will also have physical exhaustion, all because of the lack of salt, if you can find a way to get a lot of salt, you can most effectively improve the strength of the tribe.
Thinking of this, Yeyang hurriedly asked the leader where the salt came from, and the leader danced and told him that far away from the tribe, there was a large tribe, and the salt was traded from that tribe.
However, the exchange price is very expensive, and the food carried by an ordinary clansman, that is, a hundred catties, enough food for ten adults, can only be exchanged for salt in a small stone jar, not even half a catty.
He pointed to the bright fireworks in the middle of the cave and told him that the fire was also raised with the help of the people of the big tribe, and the price was even more expensive, and every time the fire was lit, it required food for ten people to carry on their backs.
There is a lot of wood around the cave, but the tribe is short of manpower, there is no special person to burn the fire, the flame will be extinguished if you are not careful, and in the summer season, the flame that burns all the time is easy to make the cave hot.
It is worth mentioning that the four seasons here change very frequently, twelve months a year, and only four months of birth, heat, dryness, and cold.
According to the leader, the big tribe over there is very far away, even ordinary blood warriors, they have to go ten sunrises and sunsets, the strength of the big tribe is very strong, and the number of warriors is more than their entire tribe.
A powerful warrior like him also has the number of two hands, and there are even legendary ability warriors, but he can't say how many people there are in the tribe, he hasn't studied it, and he can only count within ten.
With the popularization of the basket and the familiarity of fishing nets, the tribe's hunting and gathering results increased dramatically, leaving a few weaker warriors to fish by the stream, and the food harvested every day could basically meet the food and clothing of the tribesmen.
Occasionally, there is still a lot left, which is taken to the rocks outside the cave and dried into dried meat and fruit, as the reserve food of the tribe, there is sufficient food to provide, and the living conditions of the tribe have obviously improved a lot.
Those half-grown emaciated teenagers, no longer curled up in the cave all day to sleep, will also try to come out to move, the stagnant strength of the warriors has also begun to slowly improve, and the whole tribe is thriving.
As the "invention" of the basket and fishing net, Yeyang also quickly gained a status in the tribe, and under the abundance of meat, fruits, and deliberate training, the weak body gradually became stronger.
Vitality, soul power, rules, these things can't be used. There is no innate purple qi, and the purple qi comes from the east to breathe the method, and it can only be used to adjust the breathing, but the Hongmeng alchemy technique has a weak lifting effect.
With the consent of the chief, Yeyang gathered the teenagers and children of the tribe in the name of training in advance, conducted simple teaching, and selected a few strong and intelligent ones to develop into his own team.
As early as when he was looking for salt with the chief, he secretly swore in his heart that after solving the food and clothing of the tribe, he had to teach the language and numbers, and it would be too difficult to communicate with them!
Compared with animal meat, there is not much difference in the energy supply, but the blood and qi are relatively small, and the fish head is more useful. Long-term malnutrition has caused many people in the tribe, including Yeyang, to suffer from night blindness.
As long as it is at night, you can't see anything clearly, and the fish head is the best cure, but the effect of grilled fish is not as good as that of boiled fish head soup, and it takes a long time to be practical to see the effect.
Yeyang did not hesitate to exercise his private rights, and most of the eyes of the tribe were packed into his stomach, and in just two months, his eyesight was greatly improved, and his normal vision at night was restored.
The salt content of freshwater fish meat is definitely not as good as animal meat, the tribe's food and clothing is solved, but the importance of edible salt is becoming more and more prominent, without salt, the clansmen's combat effectiveness is low, and the combat power is low, and hunting is difficult.
Then if you get less prey, you can only fill it with fish and meat, the blood and qi are insufficient, the improvement of strength is limited, the combat power is low, and you will fall into an irrepressible dead cycle, and salt is the only hope to break the deadlock.
The strength of the opponent dispelled his idea of robbing, and in the distance opposite the cave, he could see the sea and make sea salt, but it needed to pass through the vast grassland, dense grass, and even more dangerous than the jungle.
Why don't we talk about it, the key is that he is not sure, whether it is the ocean, or a large lake, if it is a saltwater lake, it is just a saltwater lake, it can barely be used, if it is a freshwater lake, why did he go to the trouble of going there?
Helpless, there is no hope over there for the time being, Yeyang can only set his eyes on the nearby mountains and forests, wandering around the tribe if he has nothing to do, not expecting to find a salt mine, even if he finds a salt soil, it will be enough for him to be overjoyed.
The salt soil was not found, but the clay was found, and at the foot of the cave, he thought of making pottery, which has many uses, first of all, it can boil water, which is much better than raw water.
The raw water that the tribe drinks has not undergone any treatment, and there are many microorganisms and bacteria in the water, and the warriors are strong and cannot cause harm, but ordinary people may cause various physical diseases because of this.
Ascariasis is very common in the tribe, some have a big belly, eat a lot of food, but do not see the growth of the body, all day long yellow muscles and thin muscles, calling for stomach pain, that is, the roundworms in the body, absorbing most of the nutrients.
Boiling water will not be able to eliminate roundworms, at least it will play a role in inhibition, cutting off contact from the source, Yeyang knows the herbs to treat insects, but there is no near the tribe, he can't go far, he can only wait.
Can boil water, can cook broth, used to eating barbecue, slowly taste good, many tribes have bad teeth, barbecue is much better than raw meat, chewing is still hard, not as good as soft broth.
The most important thing is that if you find salt soil, you also need to use a lot of utensils to make salt, and the tribe has very few utensils, only some small stone bottles and stone pots, after all, the manpower is very limited, and there is time to make weapons.
Although pottery is easily damaged, it is by far the most effective, convenient, and best to use, and he has been prepared for it first, and in addition, he has long thought of what he has wanted to do, that is, to improve fishing nets into hunting nets.
Pottery is to be fired in a kiln, without a kiln, but the effect is not ideal, fuel firewood is also OK, there are a lot around the tribe, but the temperature of firewood is not as good as charcoal, the higher the temperature, the better the quality, simply get it out.
The technical content of the earthen kiln is not low, but for the walking encyclopedia Night Palace, it does not take much effort, and two are built at the foot of the mountain in a few days, the smaller one is used to burn charcoal, and the larger one is used to burn pottery.
When the charcoal was burned, he used clay to make a rough embryo, put it under a big tree to dry, there were clay pots, clay pots, clay bowls, and clay jars, and when the charcoal was almost ready, the rough embryos were also finished.
Bringing the new pottery to the real oven, the tribesmen held these utensils, their eyes were full of surprise and joy, Yeyang taught them how to boil raw water, how to boil broth, and the people showed a look of worship.
This time, the leader rewarded Yeyang with a bamboo tube of raw blood, not the raw blood of an ordinary beast, but the blood of a brute beast, which has a strong refining effect, and only the warriors of the tribe are qualified to drink it.
He drank the blood of the beast, felt that there were flames burning all over his body, and hurriedly cast the Hongmeng refining body, and when the heat gradually dissipated, he obviously felt the improvement of his physique, and his body discharged a large amount of black silt, which was turbid and smelly.
Soon after, Yeyang began to make hunting nets, hunting nets, compared to fishing nets, more complex, more demanding materials, vines can not resist the toss of fierce beasts, he does not lack technology, just lack of materials.
In fact, he had already found the material, but unfortunately there was a lack of extraction methods, and the appearance of pottery solved his problem, and the material was the kind of food rhizome that he had eaten when he first came to the tribe.
The starch content of the rhizome is very sufficient, but the fiber mixed in it is very much and tough, it is the best material, Yeyang found the captain of the collection team, and asked her to lead the team to collect more of that kind of rhizome.
Through making fires, carrying baskets, fishing nets and pottery, Yeyang's voice in the tribe gradually became more and more important, and with the consent of the leader, although the gathering captain was puzzled, he also collected a lot of plant roots according to his request.
Yeyang puts the rhizomes into the clay pot to soak, and then makes a fire under the clay pot to boil, constantly stirring with a long wooden stick, beating with a strong wooden stick, until all the skin and flesh fall off, and only those flocculent plant fibers remain.
Scoop up the plant fibers, continue to boil over low heat, wait until the starch becomes a paste, then remove the flame, after the paste is dried, it becomes a lump of starch, which can be eaten directly or used to soak in water and drink.
This is an extremely shelf-stable food, which can be used as a reserve food or as a dry food for the team to carry when they go out, and the tribesmen are very concerned about starch blocks, while Yeyang is more concerned about those flocculent fibers.
Cleaning and straightening a large number of fibers, winding them with a few fibers, and weaving them into a thin rope, and interweaving them with a few strings to form a rope as thick as a finger, even the flesh and blood warriors of the tribe need some effort to tear it off.
The rope was braided into a hunting net, and Yeyang showed the net to the chief, who only felt that the net was very strong, and it was difficult to break it when fishing, so he was very happy, and did not think of hunting, and Yeyang was helpless.
I had to call two warriors, let them pick up the big net and open it, put on their own animal skins, pick up the horns of the bighorn deer, and rush into the big net, the horns were stuck in the grid, and they couldn't advance or retreat, and they were getting tighter and tighter, and they could only be slaughtered.
The others were still dazed, the leader touched his chin, he had already reacted, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes, compared to traps, the working principle of hunting nets is easier to understand, and it is easier to use.